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Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase
Patent for combined compositor's stick and type chase. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Weeks, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines
Patent for a coin controlled feeding apparatus for coin controlled machines. The design is to prevent the use of iron slugs and spurious coins.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Feeder
Patent for a boiler feeder. This invention is intended to be placed above the boiler and via a regulator supplies water to the boiler.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Herrington, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher
Patent for churn-dashers of the rotary type for a churning machine. This will allow the cream upon contact with blades of the dasher to turn over and head town the bottom of the churn.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles
Patent for an apparatus for controlling trolley poles. "This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling trolley poles employed for effecting electrical connection between a trolley wire and a motor on a car, and has for its object to provide improved means for automatically throwing the trolley into position to be placed in engagement with the trolley wire" (line 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Bogue, Judson L. & Jennings, David M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anchor Post
Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Small, Wily & Brock, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Auger.
Patent for a well-boring auger is designed to improve the drilling process by multi-functional features of the auger that can be placed inside of a well-casing to cut a hole or can be used itself to cut through the casing.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Hutchins, Charles N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Machine
Patent for a wire fence machine. This invention is designed to tie wires to the line wires and line wires to the stay. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Baumgartner, Blassie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a wheel which joins the spokes to a metal sleeve surrounding the hub of the wheel.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Votaw, Charles Leroy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a combination lock that is able to be changed at will due to its arrangement of parts.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inkstand.
Patent for an inkstand which draws the ink through a stopper (using capillary action) into a font. The stopper prevents "spilling of the ink in the movement or transportation of the inkstand."
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Taber, John C. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type
Patent for type. This inventions is for the body of type used in printing presses. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Weeks, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet
Patent for a metal kitchen cabinet. This cabinet is designed to be portable and protect against vermin. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Shanley, Michael H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer
Patent for an insect destroyer. This invention is designed to destroy insects on growing cotton plants. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Butz, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Holder
Patent for a device to hold type, so it can set and be delivered.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Weeks, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve. This design is for use with tanks. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Fambrough, Andrew Clarence & Swearingen, Alonzo J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transplanter
Patent for transplanter. This transplanter is designed to keep the roots compacted with the immediate soil around the root system.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Snowden, Lewis Waller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vending Machine
Patent for a vending machine. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene Stites & Wilmore, S. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spur Attachment For Stirrups
Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Poorter, Charles Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler or Refrigerator.
Patent for an apparatus for cooling milk and other food products without the use of ice.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Suggs, Allen C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press For Ribbons, &c
Patent for a press for ribbons. This invention is for a press that smooths the wrinkles out of ribbon, lace, and other items such as neckties. Illustration included.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Fuqua, William Yancey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Controller
Patent for a means to "instantly pull down the trolley-pole when its trolley jumps the conductor-wire." (line 15-17)
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Leecraft, Walter, B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Step For Carriages
Patent for a step for carriages. This invention is meant "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device ... for use on buggies, wagons, and other vehicles" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Hopper, Ceburn Elzworth
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hatching and Brooding Body
Patent for a hatching and brooding body. "This invention relates to an artificial heating-body for the hatching of eggs or the warming of broods" (line 7-9). Illustration included.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Sossna, Adolph O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History